A totally empty system?

[Bam]

I found this system last night while taking a test ride in the Mandalay. It appears with a name on the galaxy map but is not selectable, no map filter makes it appear, yet you can search for it and its there....
Hypua Flyoae aa-a h83
Anyone ever seen anything similar before?

 

[Ian Doncaster]

It's a (somewhat faint) large nebula. If you zoom the map out a bit it's easier to see that one.

Try a search for "Coalsack Dark Region" for a non-procedural example.

 

[nepomuk]

Yes exactly, looks like a “NEBULA”. The symbol does not show a system symbol either. I'm in the crab fog right now. It's the same there > CRAB NEBULA | CRAB NEBULA

 

[Lhorndra]

Interesting. For whatever reason, I didn't know that you can just look up the names of nebulae.

 

[nepomuk]

hihihi ... I didn't know that either, just realized it, at least with the Crab Nebula
HYPA FLYOAE AA-A H83 doesn't seem to be a nebula, something else, at least not a star system

 

[varonica]

It's probably a marker for large mass area, everything in the galaxy has to have a coordinate marker, even the mass cubes, this is probably one of them, you will find them all over the place if you look hard enough.

 

[Ian Doncaster]

HYPA FLYOAE AA-A H83 doesn't seem to be a nebula

Certainly looks like one to me - zoom out a bit and rotate the map a bit, it's quite diffuse and a faint red colour that blends into the background a lot (I think it was a bit more visible in previous versions?), but it is there.

 

[marx]

Yep, Hypua Flyoae AA-A h83 is a nebula. One of the faint ones, but still one. There's a rather easy way to tell: they get a label on the galaxy map. There's also the Hypua Flyoae AA-A h52 nebula nearby.

Procedurally generated large nebulae have the system name as a label, procedurally generated planetary nebulae get "[center system name] Nebula" as a name. That distinction is a bit weird, but it is what it is. (As an interesting trivia, the planetary nebulae as objects are also untargetable-in-cockpit virtual systems like the centers of large nebulae, they are just in the same position as the actual system that you can visit. For example, Thraikoo PS-U e2-4 is the center system, Thraikoo PS-U e2-5 is the planetary nebula.)